profligate

GRE

英[?pr?fl?g?t]
美[?prɑfl?g?t]

基本釋義

adj.
揮霍的; 浪費的; 放蕩的; 行為不檢點的

詞性變化

實用例句

profligate spending

恣意揮霍的開支

牛津詞典

...the most profligate consumer of energy in the world.

世界上能源揮霍最嚴重的國家

Thus the crisis punishes the frugal more than the profligate.

如此看來,危機對節(jié)儉者的懲罰,要比對恣意揮霍者更為嚴厲.

期刊摘選

German public opinion is firmly set against the public purse to help the profligate Greeks.

德國輿論堅決反對使用其國庫的錢來幫助揮霍的希臘人.

期刊摘選

But like all the most successful illicit traders, China is ideologically profligate in its relations.

就像那些成功的違法交易以一樣, 中國正在享受這種關系帶來的好處.

期刊摘選

He is a careless profligate.

他是個粗枝大葉的浪蕩子.

辭典例句

Yet they have something in common: both involve the profligate deployment of resources.

然而這些行為卻有著一些共同之處: 它們都牽涉了大肆的資源揮霍.

期刊摘選

It is not: the frugal depend on the profligate.

但事實并非如此: 節(jié)儉者要依靠揮霍者.

期刊摘選

Lydia is a girl who follows exotic things, handsome man and is somehow a little profligate.

莉是個女孩,英俊的男人跟異國情調(diào), 不知何故,有點揮霍無度.

期刊摘選

Similarly Americans have been profligate in the handling of mineral resources.

同樣的,美國在處理礦產(chǎn)資源方面亦多浪費.

辭典例句

He is wicked and profligate.

他厚顏無恥,道德敗壞.

辭典例句

In her profligate life, she lost all sense of decency.

在她放蕩的生活中, 她完全喪失了一個正常人的理智.

期刊摘選

Their profligate lifestyle resulted in bankruptcy.

他們揮霍的生活方式導致的破產(chǎn).

《簡明英漢詞典》

Why do you bring your profligate companions here?

為什么你要把你那些酒肉朋友帶到這里來 呢 ?

辭典例句

At a stroke, we would know who was profligate with company money and who was parsimonious.

這樣我們一下子就能知道誰在恣意揮霍公司錢財,而誰節(jié)儉吝嗇.

期刊摘選

This young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water.

這個青年完全有可能成為十足的浪子.

《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》

The young profligate needs to be controlled.

他年少狂蕩,需要管教!

期刊摘選

The region's profligate economies will struggle for longer as austerity kicks in.

隨著財政緊縮政策的出臺,那些揮土如金的歐元國家可能將會掙扎更久.

期刊摘選

As investors focus on that gap, the most profligate rich countries, such as Britain, will suffer.

投資者對此極為關注, 最為鋪張浪費的發(fā)達國家, 比如英國, 將遭受沉重打擊.

期刊摘選

The Germans want a different sort of centralisation, built on rules to punish the profligate.

德國人希望另一種類型的中央集權, 它建立在對揮霍型政府進行懲罰的原則之上.

期刊摘選

英英釋義

Noun
  • 1. a dissolute man in fashionable society

  • 2. a recklessly extravagant consumer

Adjective
  • 1. recklessly wasteful;

    "prodigal in their expenditures"

  • 2. unrestrained by convention or morality;

    "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"

    "deplorably dissipated and degraded"

    "riotous living"

    "fast women"

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